Angantýsson, Ásgrímur and Jędrzejowski, Łukasz
(2020).
On causal "af-því-að"-clauses in Icelandic with a brief
comparison to German verb final "weil"-clauses.
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Abstract
The main aim of this paper is to examine adverbial causal "af-því-að"-clauses in modern Icelandic with a brief comparison to verb final causal "weil"-clauses in German. Semantically, we argue that "af-því-að"-clauses can be interpreted as content, epistemic or speech act related causal clauses. Syntactically, we show that "af-því-að" clauses can be analyzed as central, peripheral or disintegrated adverbial clauses in the sense claimed by Haegeman (2003, 2009, 2010, 2012) and Frey (2011, 2012, 2016, to appear), attaching as Tense Phrase, Judge Phrase or Act Phrase adjuncts, respectively. Essentially, we take interpretative differences to follow from the distinct attachment heights. Main arguments for this tripartite division are based on binding data, negation scope, movement restrictions, and mood alternation.
| Item Type: | Preprints, Working Papers or Reports (Working Paper) | ||||||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-367132 | ||||||||||||
| Series Name: | Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax | ||||||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 27 | ||||||||||||
| Date: | December 2020 | ||||||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||||||
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities | ||||||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 3: Deutsche Sprache und Literatur > Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur I | ||||||||||||
| Subjects: | Language, Linguistics | ||||||||||||
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| Funders: | Daimler und Benz Stiftung | ||||||||||||
| Projects: | Adverbial clauses as non-canonical adjuncts | ||||||||||||
| Refereed: | No | ||||||||||||
| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/36713 |
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